chibouk

American  

[chi-book, -book] / tʃɪˈbuk, -ˈbʊk /

Or chibouque

noun

1. a Turkish tobacco pipe with a stiff stem sometimes 4 or 5 feet (1.2 or 1.5 meters) long.

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chibouk British  

/ tʃɪˈbuːk /

noun

1. a Turkish tobacco pipe with an extremely long stem

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Etymology

Origin of chibouk

1805–15; < Turkish çibuk, variant of çubuk literally, shoot, sapling, staff

Example Sentences

Oh! some must tug the galley's oar, and some must tend the steed— This boy will bear a Scheik's chibouk, and that a Bey's jerreed.

From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)

Redbeard, as Lancey called him, mentally, reclined on a couch and smoked a chibouk.

From In the Track of the Troops by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

He led Lancey to the room in which they had first met, and, seating himself on a divan, lighted his chibouk.

From In the Track of the Troops by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Moulay was dead now many years, but the men still sat in the same attitudes, holding the same cups, smoking the same chibouk with the same gulping of bubbles as in the happy days.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Marshall, Edison

Tyeglev pondered, heaved a deep sigh and dropping his chibouk out of his hand, informed me that that day was a very important one for him.

From Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance